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One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be “literalists of the imagination”—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Words Count With Mama Zen

A poetry prompt? On Christmas Day? Ain't nobody got time for that!

Let's keep it short and sweet. Today, we're writing ho ho hoku: 5-7-5 syllables of happy holiday (or, bah humbug!) 'ku for your fellow Toads. Do as many as you like; there's no word count. Just have some fun. Post whenever you get a chance. No one shall receive a lump of coal for being late.

19 comments:

Thanks for making this a real short option, MZ. It's 1.30PM my time. Presents unwrapped, cooking marathon complete and I'm slipping into my Christmas day food coma... However, I shall endeavour to put together 17 syllables (between today and tomorrow). A challenge is a challenge, and I have so much to be grateful for.

Hey MZ and Kerry-- hope all well. My drawing, I confess, a bit rushed--or the iPhone painting part! Though I am really having a very relaxed time at this point. Thanks for all your fun through the year. k.

HO HO HO… I am playing but will be LATE. It has been the busiest Christmas ever - I always thought it would be less crazy as the kids aged… but they stay up so LATE and want to go to movies and malls … I'm exhausted (in a good way)

Wow! We are swimming in negativity from Facebook posts to news outlets. We can't climb out of the pit if we're always feeding on rea...

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